The surgery for severe obesity has proven to bring excellent results for patients with this condition, being candidates for these procedures those individuals who have a body mass index of 35 along with a disease related to obesity, like diabetes, hypertension, knee problems and respiratory sleep disorders etc...Or those patients with a BMI of 40 even though they don’t have any aggregated disease.

 

The BMI is calculated dividing your weight by height times height

There are different procedures to solve this problem being the most common the gastric bypass and the lap gastric band; both procedures have proven to be successful in the ideal candidate with some advantage and disadvantage between them but with good results at the end.